Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.

In the race for quality, there is no finish line

To be successful one must make change an ongoing process. Quality is a race with no finish line.

Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.

Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.

I think that if people show up in jeans and chains, it's great that all parts of culture are interested in music. People forget sometimes that it's about the music, not how you act and dress.

I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.

Music will save the world.

All the higher life forms scythed away, just like that. [ . . . ] Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.

Racing is licking your opponent's plate clean before starting on your own

The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.